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This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled
x86,efi: Implement efi_no_storage_paranoia parameter
to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree
which can be found at:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue
This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.5.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please
reply to this email.
For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable
Thanks.
-Kamal
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From 4ad1c9f1872c27080ed1bca87c20d3543f1d5924 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 01:00:53 +0200
Subject: x86,efi: Implement efi_no_storage_paranoia parameter
commit 8c58bf3eec3b8fc8162fe557e9361891c20758f2 upstream.
Using this parameter one can disable the storage_size/2 check if
he is really sure that the UEFI does sane gc and fulfills the spec.
This parameter is useful if a devices uses more than 50% of the
storage by default.
The Intel DQSW67 desktop board is such a sucker for exmaple.
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
[ kamal: backport to 3.8 as prereq for "Modify UEFI anti-bricking code"
(replaced param functionality gets implemented by that commit) ]
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
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Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 6 ++++++
arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c | 9 +++++++++
2 files changed, 15 insertions(+)
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